BACKGROUND Breastfeeding practices might be influenced by migration to another country. Although the "healthy migrant effect" is commonly reported in epidemiology, evidence for it in breastfeeding practices is weak. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare the initiation and duration of breastfeeding between Chinese Australian migrants and Chinese mothers in mainland China and test the healthy ...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema symptoms in childhood has considerably increased in developing countries including Bolivia, possibly due to changes in lifestyle, environmental and domestic factors. This study aimed to assess the association between environmental factors and asthma, rhinoconjuctivitis and eczema symptoms in school-aged childre...

INTRODUCTION Failure to comply with work ethics by employees working in Health Information Technology (HIT) Departments and their negative attitudes about organizational justice may have an adverse impact on patient satisfaction, quality of care, collecting health statistics, reimbursement, and management and planning at all levels of health care; it can also lead to unbearable damages to the h...

BACKGROUND Nocturnal enuresis is the most common pediatric urologic problem in outpatient clinics. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of various monotherapies, and comparing the effects of desmopressin, imipramine, and oxybutynin in children with enuresis, as well as the influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors of their families on the response and relapse rates. PATIENTS AND METHODS Th...

background: ectoparasites of mammalian hosts play an important role for transmission of diseases from the host res­ervoirs to human. the aim of this study was to determine the species composition and infestation parameters for para­sitic arthropods associated with rhombomys opimus. methods: ectoparasites of r. opimus were collected from seven endemic district of zcl in iran including shirvan an...

Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Aptamer Engineering Center of Hunan Province, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China 3 T.D. ...

In view of modern logistics industry in economic development playing an increasingly important role, in order to explore the relationship between logistics industry and economic development of Henan province, this paper selects its relevant data of 1990-2010, establishing econometric model, quantitatively studying the relationship between economic development and its logistics industry, in the ...

This paper makes a case study of Sichuan Province where a large number of aging population lives. By the social investigation method, 350 aged community people are interviewed to discuss the conflict between supply and demand in the current home-based care service market and the problems arising out of the market-oriented operation. In addition, this paper brings about specific countermeasures ...